BWD Engineering Committee Meeting - 9/17/09

Following the regular meeting the BWD Engineering Committee met with all interested parties for Part A of the Salineville waterline extension. The meeting was mostly conducted by Dallis Dawson and John Blair from the engineering firm of Dallis Dawson & Assocs. The purpose of the meeting was to go over the recently awarded contract and addressing any concerns.

There were township trustees there from Madison, Yellow Creek & Washington Twps. Officials from Dave Sugar Excavating were there. Sugar Excavating had the winning $2.7 million bid and will be installing the water line. The water line for Part A will go from the new reservoir to out around the Southern Local School on Rt. 39. Representatives from Comcast, AT&T, Dominion Transmission and Marathon Pipelines were also present. All these entities are either directly or indirectly involved with Part A. Most of the utility companies present have existing buried cable or pipelines in the path of the new water line.

Dave Sugar advised he has the ODOT permit for the work along Rt. 39. They will be using two mainline crews, one boring crew and a clean-up crew right behind the construction crews. Most of the pipe line will be dug out with only state roads and one spot on a county road to be bored under the highway. Any road surface damage will be repaired by the construction company. Trenches dug across roads will be refilled with aggregate along with 8" of concrete and an additional 2" of asphalt on top of that. The line will be around four feet deep.

Once started it is expected to have Part A complete within 150 days. Sugar announced he is planning to use a red light system for traffic control in addition to flagmen. BWD will provide the primary inspectors with BWD employee Mark Allison & private contractor Dane Dysert handling that aspect. Dysert is a retired pipe fitter with extensive certifications for all types testing and pipe line inspection techniques. His brother use to refer to him as the "pipe surgeon".

After a 21 item list of stipulations was reviewed and all questions and concerns were answered the meeting was adjourned. Next step is to get the Notice to Proceed from the appropriate government agencies.

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